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Cocker Specific Discussion => Feeding => Topic started by: Sue67 on April 25, 2007, 06:08:11 PM

Title: Pilchards - How Often?
Post by: Sue67 on April 25, 2007, 06:08:11 PM: Due to reading other threads on here, I tried Indy with pilchards in tomato sauce, needless to say, she loves them, though I don't love her breath afterwards.

She has them 1 or 2 times a week as half of one of her normal meals, (she's fed twice a day), can you give them more often, or just keep them as a weekly treat?

I'm also going to try her with the ones in sunflower oil, though I suspect they'll result in stinky breath too. <a href="http://plugin.smileycentral.com/http%253A%252F%252Fwww.smileycentral.com%252F%253Fpartner%253DZSzeb008%255FZNxmk696LBGB%2526i%253D36%252F36%255F1%255F59%2526feat%253Dprof/page.html" target="_blank">[img width= height= alt=SmileyCentral.com" border="0]http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_1_59.gif[/img]
Title: Re: Pilchards - How Often?
Post by: Waggy One on April 25, 2007, 08:18:55 PM: Beau has pilchards in tomato sauce about once a week, I did try letting him have them more often but then he started refusing his normal meals so we went back to once a week - it's his Saturday Special :005:
Title: Re: Pilchards - How Often?
Post by: silkstocking on April 25, 2007, 08:30:04 PM: I'm a once or twice a week person, I couldn't stand the smell any more than that ph34r

Personally I wouldn't feed the sunflower ones too much I think the sunflower can act as a bit of a laxative effect :005: So try and drain quite a bit of the oil off.
Title: Re: Pilchards - How Often?
Post by: michelle123 on April 25, 2007, 08:33:32 PM: Yep a couple of times a week here too. Blue has both pilchards & sardines in tomato sauce. One meal he has mixed in with his dried food and another meal I mix with pasta. Unfortunately he stinks if his ears go in the bowl ::)
Title: Re: Pilchards - How Often?
Post by: happydog on April 25, 2007, 08:35:05 PM: Like Lisa, I feed Fern pilchards in tomato sauce with a raw egg and shell crunched up about once every 7-10 days. I can't stand the strinky breath more often than that either :lol:.
Title: Re: Pilchards - How Often?
Post by: cockahoot on April 25, 2007, 08:57:50 PM: Isn't egg shell quite sharp! Sorry to ask a silly question but what's the benefit (just curious)
Title: Re: Pilchards - How Often?
Post by: happydog on April 25, 2007, 09:05:30 PM: Quote from: cockahoot on April 25, 2007, 08:57:50 PM
Isn't egg shell quite sharp! Sorry to ask a silly question but what's the benefit (just curious)
Calcium and minerals. Fern is BARF fed so is quite used to crunching raw bones. A dogs digestive system is quite different to ours and eggshell and raw bones are easily digested providing the dog crunches them up well :D .
Title: Re: Pilchards - How Often?
Post by: Nicola on April 25, 2007, 09:07:33 PM: Mine have sardines or pilchards once a week, usually on Saturday mornings as a treat. Sometimes Alfie will have them more than once though if I forget to take his barf out of the freezer :005: They also have them with a raw egg a la Happydog :D
Title: Re: Pilchards - How Often?
Post by: Luvly on April 25, 2007, 09:35:41 PM: :lol2:
Title: Re: Pilchards - How Often?
Post by: *Jay* on April 25, 2007, 09:41:04 PM: Jersey gets two sardines every day mixed in with her food to encourage her to eat ::)
Title: Re: Pilchards - How Often?
Post by: Joules on April 25, 2007, 09:47:47 PM: Coco has either pilchards or sardines in tomato sauce about once a week - also with an egg on top. Can't persuade her to eat the shell though as she is a fussy little so and so ::)
Title: Re: Pilchards - How Often?
Post by: James on April 26, 2007, 06:28:38 PM: stella has 1 a day with her lunch